Strainer for milk-cans.



H. EDNER. STRAINER FOR MILK CANS. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 27, 1908.

Patented May 11, 1909.

m2 mmms PETERS co. WASHINGTON, n. c.

HOMER EDNER, OF DUBOIS, PENNSYLVANIA.

STRAINER FOR MILK-CANS.

Application filed. November 27, 1908.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 11, 1909.

Serial No. 6,573.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Henna EDNER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Duhois, in the county of Clearfield and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain net-r and useful Improvements in Strainers for lvliilk-Cans, of hich the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This in ention relates to strainers for milk cans, and the primary object of my invention is to provide a strainer that can be used as a fixture in a milk can and in connection aith the lid thereof, for facilitatin the operation of straining milk direct into a can.

AQHO'tIlQl object of the invent-ion is to provide a strainer that can he placed in a can and located in engagement a ith the lid thereof, hereby said strainer and lid can be simultaneously removed from the can.

A further object of the invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive and durable strainer that ill permit the milk or cream to be safely strained into a can or similar receptitClt.

wtith the alcove and other objects in vies, "which will more readily appear as the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts to be presently described and then claimed.

in the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view: of a can having a funnel shaped neck or mouth equipped Kill/l1 the strainer, Fig. 2 is a plan of the same, and 3 is a horizontal sectional viev: taken on the line El -"Y of Fig. 1.

in Figs. to 3 inclusive, 1 have illustrator a can or receptaclehaving the neck 2 thereof provided *eith a funnel shaped mouth 10. Fitted in the neck 2 and the funnel shaped mouth 10 is a funnel 1 1 having upper reamed edges 12 titted upon the upper reamed edges of the funnel shaped mouth 10. The lower end of the funnel 11 is provided nith a screen 13. The tunnel 1 1 is provided -with inwardly projecting diametrically opposed lugs 14, these lugs being located adjacent to the vertil l I l cal portion 15 of the funnel 11. Adapted to lit in the vertical portion 15 of said tunnel is a sleeve 16 of a lid 17, said lid having diametrically opposed outwardly extending lugs 18 adapted to engage under the lugs 14, also the handle 19. The lid facilitates the removal of the strainer, and in either instance, the lid is adapted to maintain the contents of the can or receptacle 1 in a sanitary condition during the interval of pouring milk or cream into the can.

hile in the drawings formin a part of this application there is illustrated the preferred form of construction e1r-.hodying the invention, it is to he understood that the elements therein may be varied or changed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having now described my invention hat 1 claim as net is 1. The combination aith a can having a neck and a funnel shaped mouth, of a funnel adapted to "fit into the mouth and neck of said can, a screen carried by the loser end of said funnel, inwardly projecting oppositely disposed lugs carried by said funnel, a lid fitting in said tunnel and having oppositely disposed projecting lugs adapted to engage under the lugs of said tunnel for connecting the lid thereto, substantially as described.

2. The combination with a can having a neck and a funnel-shaped mouth, of a funnel adapted to fit into the mouth and neck of said can, a screen attached to the lower end of said tunnel, in'an'ardly projecting oppositely disposed lugs formed integral with the funnel at a point intermediate the ends thereof, and a lid fitting in said funnel and provided with means adapted to engage under said lugs for connecting the lid to the funnel.

In testimony "whereof l atlix my signature in the presence of t'i'fO Witnesses.

HOiER EDNER.

i itnesses J. w. BAILEY, S. Iv T. BARCLAY. 

